Starbucks will close all of its 8,000 company-owned US stores for a single day on May 29th to conduct racial bias training for nearly 175,000 employees. It's a bold and very public attempt to make amends

Starbucks seems to have found the Holy Grail in China, in the shape of its Reserve Roastery outlet in Shanghai. It has opened these high-end outlets - which offer premium craft coffees, bakeries and augmented

Price division and before that a senior manager at Starbucks for 12 years, joins the chain as brand president. New adds to the development team are Elizabeth Baicy (from Amazon) as VP, digital & future

An Indiana court has blocked Starbucks' plan to close all its standalone Teavana stores in the US, in response to a lawsuit from mall-owner Simon Property Group. Starbucks will have to maintain operations